The photography of Christian Cremona overcomes the first challenge of the photographic technique of fixing an image by capturing the variation of light. Cremona does not portray what he sees through the lens, but takes advantage of the opportunities of the camera to fix images of pure pictorial light and tells what he sees from his perspective.
Cremona “models” and “designs” light through the intellectual gesture of sculpture, but with a pictorial approach in which he captures the creative moment. The object or the atmosphere that takes shape is the result of a thought that gradually matures in the artist as he focuses what is in front of him. The result is an image full of stimuli and feelings.
The artist uses digital photography to create photos that are substantially abstract but full of strong symbols, where the effect is achieved through a long exposure and simultaneous movement of the camera.
Cremona faces light as a tangible matter through a dynamism that leads to reflection on the mutability of time and the transformation of matter with results of powerful suggestion.
Among the works that the artist exhibits at the Tempo al tempo exhibition is the photographic triptych Prometeo (‘Prometheus’, 2014), which exalts the power of the mythical divine fire that releases the energy necessary to support new dreams. The work suggests a dialogue between the human and divine spheres, but also the wisdom of man who seeks in himself alone the vital energy of the creative fire.
Cremona made the camera reveal the ideal image, primordial, wisely shrouded in mystery: an image hidden in the most secret parts of the human being which light must reveal in its nakedness.
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Christian Cremona was born in Tradate (Varese) in 1985, and he made his first appearance in the contemporary art scene after his diploma, taking an interest in graphic art, particularly original editions, materials and techniques.
After graduating in cultural heritage studies in 2008, he began to work with light as tangible matter through the intellectual gesturality of sculpture, still characterised by a pictorial language in which he captures the creative moment. For several years now, he has been conceiving photography as a means for revealing the ideal image placed in mystery.
He currently lives and works in Lonate Ceppino (Varese).
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